Buy this book on-line CHARLES M.DOUGHTY : Wanderings in Arabia. Being an Abridgement of Travels in Arabia Deserta. Arranged and introduced by Edward GarnettDuckworth & Co., London, 1908
First Edition Thus (first printing), complete in two volumes. 8vo. xx, 309 and x, 297pp. Green cloth lettered in black at the spines. Top edges gilt. With a tissue-protected portrait frontispiece to the first volume, and a frontispiece drawing to the second. Backstrip ends gently bruised, and with a little toning to the free endpapers and spotting to several preliminary leaves. The binding a fraction tender at the first text leaf of volume one. Tiny dealer plates to the base of the front pastedowns. A very good set of this abridgement of Doughty's important 1888 travelogue, which recounts just under two years spent exploring Western and Central Arabia. 'Travels in Arabia Deserta' was rejected by four publishing houses and went largely unnoticed until the full text was reissued in 1921 accompanied by a glowing T.E.Lawrence introduction.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of CHARLES M.DOUGHTY : Wanderings in Arabia. Being an Abridgement of Travels in Arabia Deserta. Arranged and introduced by Edward Garnett. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including livres illustrées, fine bindings, rare books, livres rares and used books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |